Catching up! Wow! I hadn't blogged in a good while. Well, I came home early. A lot earlier than some of my friends did. I skipped Thursday and Friday last week and came home Wednesday. Really, I haven't done much. Friday, Mimi and I went four-wheeler riding back in the country. That was pretty fun! Hopefully, Tuesday will be another beautiful day to go riding again. It'd be nice to get on my brother's bike, but from experience it's pretty much too dangerous.
Below are a few words from one of the newer films that I have recently watched. If you get a chance you must see “Into the Wild.” It’s a longer movie, but it has some good “meat” to it. On my way home was actually the first time I had heard about the film, and before that I had even been thinking about doing something like him.
On those eight hour trips, your mind really gets to thinking, and substantially starts to wonder about things like: school, happiness, family, friends, purpose, … life.
I don’t want this to sound like I am copying him because that would just be absurd. I think that dropping everything like that wasn’t too smart. It was actually too rebellious for me, but one of the things that I have been hoping to do is to travel the World and see what people see, do what they do, and live like they live. Anyways, here’s the excerpt:
Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. So now, after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure. The climatic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual revolution. No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild.
Alexander Supertramp
May 1992
One thing I really think he was trying to do was to grow spiritually, and possibly come back to society a new person, … something refreshed and free of “poison.” But in reality if he came back refreshed, “society” would still be there with the same ole’ people and the same ole’ “poison.” He pushed himself over the edge with his ideologies. He was “too far” into it. He was thinking too far into all that jazz. He realized that happiness was only real when shared. At that point he truly realized how unhappy he was. He had no one! This is a change of subject, but have you ever wondered about people, teens, and children that truly have no one? Or have you ever felt this slight unhappiness? Or have you ever wondered why people isolate themselves from society? Sometimes it’s not the person’s fault that falls into isolation. People push people into social isolation! Ok, enough of that rant. Anyways, he did have family that cared, but he pushed himself away from society. As said by his sister, “Christopher was writing his [own] story.” His own poison unfortunately lead him to death.
Two more quotes from the movie are below. These were quite amazing! Hopefully in a few years I’ll be able to write a few chapters to my story, … my life.
“But when you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines on you.”
“What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?”
Oh yeah, I am pretty sure I am double-majoring now. I was just going for chemical engineering with a minor in mathematics, but now I have decided to study archaeology as well. My minor in math is pretty much complete. Actually with another chemistry class I would probably have my chemistry minor as well. There’s so much that I want to do and could do. I am totally interested in cell biology, hardcore chemistry, climatology, and, believe it or not, rocks. Oh, I also passed the hardest electricity and magnetism test that our physics teacher could make up. It was sad that everybody failed it, but it was great that I only missed one 3 point question. It was the easiest question. Really, I knew the answer to the question, but I marked the wrong choice.
Well, if you ever in Fayettown there’s only one place that you can find me and that’s on the third floor in the Mullin’s library at a table between the books on war and the books on food chemistry. Oh, and I had to post a picture of Multnomah Falls and some more pictures from this week. Hope you like them. This summer, I am definitely going out West again. It is a definite! But this time I am going out to Montana for vacation, and possibly to stay in Colorado for a while. Peace out! ps, these make excellent backgrounds. LiL Stout
On those eight hour trips, your mind really gets to thinking, and substantially starts to wonder about things like: school, happiness, family, friends, purpose, … life.
I don’t want this to sound like I am copying him because that would just be absurd. I think that dropping everything like that wasn’t too smart. It was actually too rebellious for me, but one of the things that I have been hoping to do is to travel the World and see what people see, do what they do, and live like they live. Anyways, here’s the excerpt:
Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. So now, after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure. The climatic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual revolution. No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild.
Alexander Supertramp
May 1992
One thing I really think he was trying to do was to grow spiritually, and possibly come back to society a new person, … something refreshed and free of “poison.” But in reality if he came back refreshed, “society” would still be there with the same ole’ people and the same ole’ “poison.” He pushed himself over the edge with his ideologies. He was “too far” into it. He was thinking too far into all that jazz. He realized that happiness was only real when shared. At that point he truly realized how unhappy he was. He had no one! This is a change of subject, but have you ever wondered about people, teens, and children that truly have no one? Or have you ever felt this slight unhappiness? Or have you ever wondered why people isolate themselves from society? Sometimes it’s not the person’s fault that falls into isolation. People push people into social isolation! Ok, enough of that rant. Anyways, he did have family that cared, but he pushed himself away from society. As said by his sister, “Christopher was writing his [own] story.” His own poison unfortunately lead him to death.
Two more quotes from the movie are below. These were quite amazing! Hopefully in a few years I’ll be able to write a few chapters to my story, … my life.
“But when you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines on you.”
“What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?”
Oh yeah, I am pretty sure I am double-majoring now. I was just going for chemical engineering with a minor in mathematics, but now I have decided to study archaeology as well. My minor in math is pretty much complete. Actually with another chemistry class I would probably have my chemistry minor as well. There’s so much that I want to do and could do. I am totally interested in cell biology, hardcore chemistry, climatology, and, believe it or not, rocks. Oh, I also passed the hardest electricity and magnetism test that our physics teacher could make up. It was sad that everybody failed it, but it was great that I only missed one 3 point question. It was the easiest question. Really, I knew the answer to the question, but I marked the wrong choice.
Well, if you ever in Fayettown there’s only one place that you can find me and that’s on the third floor in the Mullin’s library at a table between the books on war and the books on food chemistry. Oh, and I had to post a picture of Multnomah Falls and some more pictures from this week. Hope you like them. This summer, I am definitely going out West again. It is a definite! But this time I am going out to Montana for vacation, and possibly to stay in Colorado for a while. Peace out! ps, these make excellent backgrounds. LiL Stout
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Just wait until we get to belize! it is so simple there. makes me long for a simplified way of life.
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